From the early 1800s until as late as the 1940s, white settlers massacred tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Aboriginal people across Australia.
But there was only one Myall Creek.
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The massacre of approximately 30 Wirrayaraay people at Myall Creek on June 10, 1838, the subsequent court cases and the hanging of seven settlers for their role in the massacre was a pivotal moment in the development of the relationship between settlers and Aboriginal people.
It was the first and last attempt by the colonial administration to use the law to control frontier conflict between settlers and Aboriginal people.
The Myall Creek Massacre and Memorial Site has, in recent years, united the descendants of those who were murdered and the descendants of those who carried out the massacre.
Ron Sutton has the story.
